PREFACE. 



THE great object of this work is to collect all the most 

 valuable improvements in husbandry, both in Europe and 

 America, as they stand recorded by the most learned and 

 approved authors, and reduce the whole to one plain prac- 

 tical system of American farming, adapted to our cli- 

 mate, the state of our markets, and more particularly, to 

 the high price of labour in our country. 



Having been engaged in farming upon a large scale for 

 about thirty years, and in the course of that time, tested 

 by my own experience most of the European systems ; I 

 enter with some confidence upon the labours before me j 

 but with what success, the public alone can decide. 



By abridging the learned work of Mr. Huish on the 

 Culture of the Bee, as an addition to the work, together 

 with a few practical remarks on Gardening ; I have en- 

 deavoured to compress into one cheap volume, all that is 

 both valuable arad useful in the science of husbandry, and 

 for the special use of the plain practical American farmer. 

 The whole is interspersed with occasional remarks of 

 the Author. 



Farming has generally been considered, in our country, 

 as a rustic, old fashioned business, that any man of com 

 mon sense could do, if he chose; and what was really be- 

 low the attention of a gentleman ; but happy is it for our 

 country, such sentiments are daily passing under the lash 

 of public opinion, and the true worth of the farmer, and 

 the art of farming, are rising to their true scale of public 

 estimation. 



The Agricultural Societies of our country, will in a few 

 years excite an emulation, that will make our farms, in 

 some measure, resemble the Salem Aims-House farm, and 

 our farmers become the Paul Uptons of their country. 



The numerous benefits resulting to every family from 



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